Dream Up

Dream Up is about expansion.

I started this painting during spring in the Netherlands and finished it in summer. Somehow, the painting needed its own time too.

What I love about living somewhere with very defined seasons is seeing how clearly nature knows when to retreat and when to return. After months of stillness, everything starts looking for light again. It takes space. It grows. It blooms.

I think we do that too.

There are seasons when we need to go inward, and others when something in us is ready to open again.

I built this piece slowly, through four layers of acrylic. Each one changed what was underneath without completely erasing it. I like that because it feels very close to how we change as people. We grow, but we carry traces of who we were before.

For me, Spring is that moment when you realize your season has changed.
And you allow yourself to bloom again.